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[Contained][Severity: Major][Phishing][Credential abuse]

Kodansha: unauthorized access to a company email account

On 27 July, a Kodansha employee clicked a link in a phishing email posing as a business partner and entered credentials on a fake login page, and the company email account was taken over. On 30 July the attacker stole up to 3,812 contacts and sent phishing emails posing as the employee to 553 of them. The employee noticed the same day, changed the password and ended the sessions. Email addresses and some names leaked.

Disclosed

2026-08-03

Organizations involved

1

Leaked or at risk

3.8K

3,812

Downtime

Unknown

Timeline

  1. Started 2026-07-27
  2. Detected 2026-07-30
  3. Disclosed 2026-08-03
  4. 7 days

Attack or cause

Method
[Phishing][Credential abuse]
Impact
[Data leak]
Entry point
Stolen credentials

Data exposed or at risk

[E-mail address][Name]

Organizations involved

Open in organization search

Sources

  1. [1][Official]不正アクセスによる個人情報流出のお詫びとお知らせKodansha · 2026-08-03
  2. [2][News]講談社、最大3812件の個人情報流出 社員がフィッシングメールに騙されるITmedia NEWS · 2026-08-03